Fear In The House Of Roderick Usher

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- The first five paragraphs of the story are devoted to creating a gothic mood. It helps the reader picture the ancient, eerie decaying castle.
- Immediately entraps the reader into feeling as though he is trapped in the house of Usher
- Roderick Usher and Lady Madeline are twins
- This story focuses on the concept of fear, for its goal is to make the reader feel scared, and Roderick’s worst fear is, ironically, fear- "grim phantasm, FEAR."
- Possibility- Poe’s goal was for the reader to imagine that when Roderick Usher buries his twin sister while she is still alive (attempted murder), he is attempting to be rid of that part of himself (a.ka. the twin part… Also the incestuous part of him that he is no doubt ashamed of. By killing his twin
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